code cleanup in druntime and phobos

[Nameless via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 5 September 2014 at 12:24:02 UTC, Nameless wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 September 2014 at 07:20:15 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> On Monday, 1 September 2014 at 22:52:46 UTC, Walter Bright 
>> wrote:
>>> On 8/30/2014 7:37 AM, Dicebot wrote:
>>>> GitHub is an intrusive closed ecosystem and it is legitimate
>>>> concern for anyone caring about the open internet.
>>>
>>> How so? The github repositories are mirrored on my machine as 
>>> git repositories.
>>
>> git != GitHub
>>
>> While you may still clone the repository there is no way to 
>> use any of advanced / social features without creating GitHub 
>> account and those features are exactly why it gets used. With 
>> no support for anonymous / openID input it creates situation 
>> where you have to chose - go with competitors and lose notable 
>> amount of community attention or stay with GitHub even if 
>> actual technological features provided are sub-par. In the end 
>> it encourages harmful attitude "there is nothing outside the 
>> GitHub" which of course benefits its owners much more than any 
>> actual technological advantage.
>>
>> It is nothing unique for GitHUb I can blame them for though - 
>> this is how absolute majority of web services is built these 
>> days and I don't see it changing without any government 
>> regulations. Does mean I must like it.
>
> Government control would just mean controlled by corruption. 
> The solution needs to be technological: a distributed github. I 
> have no idea how to do that but I'm sure it's possible. Until 
> something like that gets implemented, it seems to me that 
> "github or GO" (without the "TF" and with a rationale) is the 
> best option. It won't scale to force core contributors to 
> collect patches from services x, y and z.

Also, I can't imagine anything more "X or GTFO!!!!" than 
government control / state coercion.